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ohaya
Hi,
My son has a Compaq Presario R3370US laptop, and I had bought a new 80GB
Hitachi 7K100 drive for him for Christmas. I started to try to replace
the drive tonight, but the original 40GB (a Seagate) seems to have a
kind of strange connector on it. It doesn't have the two rows of pins
like the connector on the 7K100, but it looks like a kind of right-angle
connector where you can push it "down" onto the male connector inside
the bottom of the laptop.
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these laptops? Is that
"right-angle connector" just some kind of adapter on the normal "pins"
(i.e., where I can pop off the adapter and move it to the Hitachi
drive), or does this laptop use some kind of special hard drive (i.e.,
so I can't use the 7K100 at all)?
I tried chatting with HP service, but they really weren't much help
...
Thanks,
Jim
My son has a Compaq Presario R3370US laptop, and I had bought a new 80GB
Hitachi 7K100 drive for him for Christmas. I started to try to replace
the drive tonight, but the original 40GB (a Seagate) seems to have a
kind of strange connector on it. It doesn't have the two rows of pins
like the connector on the 7K100, but it looks like a kind of right-angle
connector where you can push it "down" onto the male connector inside
the bottom of the laptop.
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these laptops? Is that
"right-angle connector" just some kind of adapter on the normal "pins"
(i.e., where I can pop off the adapter and move it to the Hitachi
drive), or does this laptop use some kind of special hard drive (i.e.,
so I can't use the 7K100 at all)?
I tried chatting with HP service, but they really weren't much help
...Thanks,
Jim